Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).
I was saying just yesterday that I like to keep the photos I choose for these posts as fresh as possible. But there are days when an exception could be made, and today is such a day - it is the 46th birthday of the National Flag of Canada. Flown for the first time on Parliament Hill at 12 noon, February 15th 1965, it was the first flag to be unique to Canada and not feature the Union Jack in some way.
And while the long and contentious history of how we as a nation came to get a flag of our own may be beyond the scope of this post, the Maple Leaf is now known the world over and we as Canadians should be proud wherever we may wear it. O Canada, from PoweredByAloe is a photo of the largest Canadian Flag ever constructed (measuring 32 x 64 meters, larger than a hockey rink) wrapped around the Hotel Goergia. You might have noticed it last year.
The Canadian Encyclopedia describes the flag's blazon as "Gules on a Canadian pale argent a maple leaf of the first." And that's always nice.
Happy Flag Day Canada.
